WOMEN IN BANKS

Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 151, 29 June 1922, Page 7

WOMEN IN BANKS

THE POST-WAR TEST

INTERESTING OPINIONS

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.-—COP XRtfIMT.J (Received June 29, 10 a.m.) ■ SYDNEY, This Day. , The Sydney Daily Telegraph publishes interviews with various bank managers on the question whether women are continuing to make good in the positions they filled in commercial life during the absence of the men at the war. The almost unanimous opinion was that, in a clerical capacity they had satisfactorily proved their ability. As to their banking, capacity, views yary, with the proviso "that they have not had time yet to fully test themselves. One banker declared that they were not so dependable in similar positions as men, and owing to their physical construction they could not always be reckoned upon in a crisis. Another declared that woman, as a bank clerk, was still in the cradle. - "She does what she is told, more or less." I Judged in the mass, she is placid, and vaguely intelligent, but tractable. A!s a clerical worker she is, in the main, equal to:a man. , , . A third. said that brilliant women of brains were difficult to find, but when they werefound they eclipsed the man. The stamina, of a woman was much against her. Where a man ■ would go doggedly through with' a tough bit of work, a woman's nerve breaks. The time of pressure is the time a woman fails, unless she is a great exception.